Robin Thicke, Pharrell Williams and T.I. (real name: Clifford Harris) are taking the Marvin Gaye family and Bridgeport Music (owner of Funkadelic compositions) to court to protect Thicke’s song “Blurred Lines,” according to the Hollywood Reporter. The lawsuit, which was filed in a California federal court on Thursday, is a complaint about comparisons between two…

On Tuesday afternoon, while riding his bike on South Weinbach Avenue in Evansville, Ind., George Madison Jr., 38, waved to a couple of police officers nearby. From where Madison was, the officers looked familiar to him. After all, as a firefighter with the Evansville Fire Department, Madison is friends and has worked closely with many…

When Tupac rapped “ain’t nuthin’ but a gangsta party” on the hook of the song with the same name, there’s a good chance he didn’t think members of Alpha Delta Fraternity would take it so literally. But members of the frat at Dartmouth College, who probably listened to too much hip-hop and watched too many…

On Monday, U.S. District Court Judge John Corbett O’Meara ordered an end to life-without-parole sentencing for juveniles in the state of Michigan. The order comes a year after the U.S. Supreme Court found such sentences to be in violation of the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.  Now in Michigan, where the law…

So many questions and very few answers have been doled out about the upcoming season of Scandal. Shonda Rhimes, the show’s creator, has remained mum on what we should expect when the third season begins Oct. 3, but in an interview on Vulture, she indulges Gladiators with a couple of small details, specifically about the…

ESPN fired analyst Hugh Douglas a week after it was reported that he called co-host Michael Smith an Uncle Tom, Sports Illustrated reported on Tuesday. Asked Sunday by SI.com where the situation stood, ESPN spokesperson Rob Tobias said, “We are continuing to look into it and we expect a resolution this week.” That resolution has come…

Anthony Stokes, a 15-year-old boy who has been denied a heart transplant by an Atlanta hospital, supposedly because of “noncompliance,” has gained new support from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, according to CBS Atlanta. Controversy has revolved around Anthony’s case because Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta has been vague about the reasons he’s not eligible for…

Last week the Alabama Constitution Revision Commission voted in favor of a proposal to revise the language in a section of their state’s constitution allowing separate schools between black and white students. The state constitution has been under close examination for revisions since 2011, and amendments to the article about segregated schools — Section 256…

Akeem Monsalvatge, Derrick Dunkley and Edward Byam were big fans of the heist movie The Town. They were so inspired by Ben Affleck’s film about a group of Boston townies who wear masks to pull off big-time robberies that the three Queens, N.Y., men attempted to live out the movie in real life — but…